Governments have long warned not to pay a hacker’s ransom demands, arguing that doing so only lets criminals profit from their cyberattacks and funds the next one. There’s also another reason: The hackers are unlikely…
I was on vacation when I got the ping. It was an email that started: “We are writing to inform you that our hotel management system has been subject to unauthorized access.” I actually couldn’t…
Hackers are breaking into websites that run vulnerable versions of the popular blogging software WordPress, according to several cybersecurity firms. One estimate puts the number of vulnerable WordPress websites at tens of millions as of…
U.K.-based healthcare billing software maker Craneware is responding to a cyberattack in which hackers stole a “significant volume” of customer data from its systems, the company said on Monday. The company said the hackers appear…
U.S. prosecutors have accused a Florida man of uploading fake video games that contained malware to Steam, the popular PC games platform. Once victims downloaded and installed the games, the malware was designed to infect…
One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging to sensitive organizations in Ukraine, the latter country’s CERT center is warning. Clickfix has emerged…
U.K police said on Thursday that the jailing of two teenage hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, pleaded guilty…
The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers continue to mass-compromise them for use in obscuring nefarious actions against sensitive organizations in the…
Microsoft just announced via a Windows Experience blog post that the company is now using AI to identify potential security issues in Windows earlier in the development process. According to the company, this will result…
About a month ago, the anonymous security researcher Nightmare Eclipse published information about RoguePlanet, a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Defender security software. The vulnerability, officially designated CVE-2026-50656, can be exploited by hackers to gain full…